Working Girls A former U.S. Army major general brings the untold stories of the women who changed the course of World War II to light
September 8, 2021
Short List What to read this week, from a history of British musical theater to an account of the World Trade Center’s rebuilding and an inside look at the deep sea
September 8, 2021
The Way of the Jackal Before Edward Fox made the Jackal a household character, Frederick Forsyth wrote the book. Fifty years on, The Day of the Jackal still thrills
The Wonderful Wizard of Dyson Eight questions with the inventor James Dyson, who has a new memoir, on electric cars and the thinking behind the $399 hair dryer
Inside Afghanistan At the core of the current Afghanistan disaster is the West’s misunderstanding of a country and its people. These books offer a good place to start
September 1, 2021
The Art of Subtlety To attract readers but stump libel lawyers, 20th-century magazine writers alluded to sordid gossip instead of printing it
September 1, 2021
Family Feuds The story of famed U.K. department store John Lewis rivals that of the Murdoch clan in its similarities with Succession
September 1, 2021
A Hello to Arms Ernest Hemingway: renowned novelist, bullfighting aficionado, and … Spanish guerrilla fighter?
Family Business To write his second novel, Atticus Lish asked himself, “What hurts?”
Lost in Translation The moment Japan opened its doors to the West, in the late 1800s, was the moment many of its traditions disappeared. A new volume brings them back
Short List What to read this week, from a history of a secret Nixon meeting to an exploration of French colonialism in Congo and a look back at Bernini’s Rome
August 25, 2021
The Light at the End of the Tunnel How did a few German students manage to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall?
A Day in the Life of Leila Slimani The Moroccan-French author, whose latest book, a novel about a woman navigating an inter-racial marriage, is out now, explains how the magic happens
August 18, 2021
Short List What to read this week, including a personal history of a publishing duo that fled Nazi Germany; a searing memoir; and an ode to trees
August 18, 2021
